Mersenne Digest Thursday, August 10 2000 Volume 01 : Number 767 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:54:29 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mersenne: Exaflops! <<The milestone we cross this week is 50 quintillion floating point operations, or 50 exaflop.>> Holy cow! I used to think that I would never hear the word "exaflop" used seriously in my lifetime. (Though I still doubt that I'll hear "exaflops" used seriously.) I'll have to make a new GIMPS banner for it. I've updated my banners recently and sent them to Scott Kurowski; does anyone else use these things? The PNG format is great. Stephan Lavavej _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:25:11 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mersenne: Re: GIMPS Banners(was:exaflops) << Yes I use the same script as on the entopia pages to show the banners at random >> That's cool! Right after I send this E-mail I'm going to update my web site and remove the old banners directory. This will break your images if you've linked to my directory directly. However, I have a completely new and good-looking gallery page (still at http://mersenne.cjb.net ) that presents all of the new .PNG images (and a new banner) and I also have a ZIP file of all the banners. Hopefully, this will result in faster load times for everyone. :-D I won't be making GIF images ever again. Stephan Lavavej _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 18:58:46 -0700 From: "John R Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mersenne: Re: GIMPS Banners(was:exaflops) > That's cool! Right after I send this E-mail I'm going to update my web site > and remove the old banners directory. This will break your images if you've > linked to my directory directly. However, I have a completely new and > good-looking gallery page (still at http://mersenne.cjb.net ) that presents > all of the new .PNG images (and a new banner) and I also have a ZIP file of > all the banners. Hopefully, this will result in faster load times for > everyone. :-D I won't be making GIF images ever again. there are still a LOT of folks using Netscape 3 and other such browsers that don't support PNG. - -jrp _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:37:40 -0700 From: Luke Welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Lehmer memorial conference at Berkeley, 8/24,25,26 Via Alex Haley: http://www.math.berkeley.edu/lehmer.html _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 09:29:15 +0200 From: "Hoogendoorn, Sander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Re: GIMPS Banners(was:exaflops) Well, actually i use the banners from http://www.mersenne.org/ips/banners/ I hope these will also be updated, but it looks like i have to change the script when i have time. >That's cool! Right after I send this E-mail I'm going to update my web site >and remove the old banners directory. This will break your images if you've >linked to my directory directly. However, I have a completely new and >good-looking gallery page (still at http://mersenne.cjb.net ) that presents >all of the new .PNG images (and a new banner) and I also have a ZIP file of >all the banners. Hopefully, this will result in faster load times for >everyone. :-D I won't be making GIF images ever again. >Stephan Lavavej _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:42:17 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mersenne: Maybe U know this. Maybe you know this. Get the program Optout? Well I did that and also the Zone Alarm. Optout removed and disabled all the spy programs. I had 13 areas logged. Well I felt pretty secure after I downloaded the Opera Browser and stopped using the I.E. Browser. Well, one day I was looking at extended memory blocks (EMB's) , or in laymans terms , the RAM in the computer when it is on, like the 16M, 32M or 64M RAM that programs run in. Well, I had always been worried about the files Mm2048.dat and Mm256.dat files. Seems they are files that windows needs. I tried deleting them once and had to completely re-install my whole setup disk. I had a look at the files and found they contained every url:, web site, that I had ever visited. I thought, hmmm., I found that there were two invisible files in the history folder. I deleted the history, but the invisible files were still there if I right click on folder and go to properties. Anyway, In RAM memory I found the url's of every website I had ever visited. This meant that windows had read the Mn2048.dat and or Mn256.dat files into memory when I had booted up the computer. This made me mad. All a spy bot program had to do was read RAM. It wouldn't even need to access a file on my computer. And wind-dose was compiling this list of url's on my computer without my permission or knowledge, in a file I couldn't read without great effort. Try it sometime. Then when I deleted the history file, and was feeling like my web history was deleted, I was decieved. So to cut a long story shorter than it could be I downloaded a great prog. called "Webroots Window Washer". http:\\www.webroot.com It pulled the teeth on the .dat files leaving empty files in place. Now I feel a little better. You should consider that: 1. All email, and web trafic is stored somewhere. 2. Much email is read and re-read. 3. Someone is looking over your shoulder. 4. Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you. :) Handmade. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ End of Mersenne Digest V1 #767 ******************************
